Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-30
LOCAL NEW 8.
Brief Mention.

Wedding invitations engraved at Dorman
 The Simsbury fair takes place to-day ant tomorrow.
 Dr. Robert S. Ives is expected home to day from Europe.
 Vice President Reed visited Hartford ana New Britain yesterday.
 The First regiment rife tournament had tt be postponed yesterday until to-day.
 The Putnam Phalanx leave Hartford fo Washington next Monday at 4:10 p. m.
 George w. Harris, treasurer of Middletow1 Savings bank, died yesterday, aged seventy five.
 John Byrne, for years porter at Whit telsey's, died at his home on West street ol Wednesday.
 Colonel Cleaves, of Kentucky, spoke in tn on temperance,
 A reissue of pension has just been mad to Joseph Schleicher, of this city, and an in crease of pension to James Dunigan.
 J. c Kinney, of Hartford, is one of thu secretaries of the Lake Mohonk Indian con ference now in session at Mohonk Lake N.
 The Hartford City Missionary society ii perfeoting arrangements for cooking schools this winter on a more extensive scale thar usual.
 The trotting and bicycle races at the Bris tol fair for yesterday were postponed unti to-day and the races appointed for to-day oc cur tomorrow.
 MT. F. F. Proctor, of Jacobs & Proctor oi Hartford, was in town last evening to wit ness the appearance of Charles T. Ellis ir "Casper the Yodler."
 Howard Staples, of Westport, has had ( miniature steam engine placed in his house which operates dynamo producing flame of seven candle power.
 James A. Bill, of Lyme, received 1856 in cash premiums at the State fair recently held at Meriden, and three gold and ten silver medals, for his fine display of blooded stock.
 The elevator is in frst-class running order day and evening in the Hoadley building, where Gaffey's shorthand school is situated. Look for mammoth new sign on top of build ing in few days.
 Mr. A. A. Baldwin. of the firm of Baldwin & Lamkin of Milford, and Miss Rose Kinsella, of Bridgeport, were married on Wednesday at the residence of the brides parents by Rev. MT. Hovey, of Bridgeport.
 Rev. Fathers Russell of this city, Slocum of Norwalk, Tierney of New Britain and Ken nedy of Birmingham were in Meriden yester- day conducting an examination of applicants for positions as teachers in parochial schools. Thomas Stahapers, an insane printer aged twenty eight, was discovered in an open field near Hartford yesterday. He was near ly nude and had his apparel floating in a brook near by. He was locked up by the police. He went to Hartford from Meriden. The statue of General Israel Putnam, de- signed by Gerhardt was on Wednesday placed on it's pedestal at Brooklyn. The model of the statue of soldier, to be erected by the Hon T. s. Marlor in the same town, was yesterday inspected and accepted by the donor.
 There was 8 passage at-arms between a groceryman named Russell in upper Ansonia and New Haven drummer on Wednesday. Russell for the time was victorious, but now is made the defendant in a civil suit for dam ages, while his store is in the hands of Con- stable Ellis, who has placed an attachment thereon.
 The late Joseph Parker left no public be- quests. The sum of $40, 900 was left to Will bur F. Day, to be held in trust and the in come paid to Laura Ann Parker during her lifetime and the full amount, $40, 1000, at her death to Lucy Parker Trowbridge. The sum of $50, 900 is left to Elizabeth Townsend Par ker and the West Rock paper mill to Joseph Parker, jr.; also several smaller bequests from $100 to $1, 900 to other relatives.